New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1915, Page 5

¥ Russwin Lyceum L > _Store. —— ALL WEEK BGhe Lyceum Players WILL PRESENT . “THE - GONSPIRACY” Comedy Drama in Threc Acts By JOHN EMERSON and ROBERT BAKER Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Prices, Matinees 10c, 20c. Even- g9 10c, 20c, 30c, 50c. Seats now selling at Crowell's Drug 'Phone 1369. | Cushing, the author of a number HEENEY'S WEEK OF J! MUSICAL COMEDY. Big Special Act. N. 4. BILLY COURT. Scotch Comedian. THE MISCHIEF MAKERS, Seven People in Cast. HIBBETT AND MYERS., In Clever Character Sketch. THE THREE ROMANS, Sensational Novelty. ALL THE LATEST PIOTURES. The playhouse of popularity and ideal family theatér TODAY AND TOMORROW ANDREW MACK the popular idol in “THE RAGGED EARL" a 5-part comedy-drama of Irish life. 2nd Chapter “EXPLOITS OF ELAINE” 2,000 feet of deep mystery enthralling and soul-stirring. ORGAN RECITALS Trained Nurse in attendance. PARSONS’ THEATRE Hartford Tonight at 8:13. ‘ ELMENDORF Artist, Traveler, Raconteur. “AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN" Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c. Thurdsay, Jan. 7 (Mat. and Night) NEIL: O'BRIEN and His Great AMERICAN MINSTRELS Prices: Night 25c to $1.50, mat. 26c to $1.00. Jan. 8-9 (Matinee Daily) Crane Wilbur Hero of “PERILS OF PAULINE.” Popular Prices. Mrs.ThyraDassel Graduate Chicago Musical College. 81 SOUTH BURRITT ST. TEL 576. Thorough piano instruction at pupil's home News —— “THE CONSPIRACY” IS PROVING POPULAR The Lyceum Players are scoring another big hit in this week’s offering at Russwin Lyceum. “The Conspir- acy” takes a place as one of the most delightful of plays offered. The dra- matic handling of the wonderfully clever story is most faithfully dome. Manager Birch, in the character of Winthrop Clavering, portrays the old man with a finish of excellence that can scarcely be improved upon. Mr. Cross as Jack Howell, the newspa- | per reporter, has a most pleasing run of comedy in his lines. Miss Calla- way's conception of the character of Margaret Hope wins many new friends. There will be a matinee per- formance Thursday afternoon. “The Widow By Proxy” will be the next attraction. This fine comedy was written by Catherine Chisholm of other farcical comedies. It is one of the greatest laugh-producers that has been seen in years. The lines are so rich in humor that at rehearsal on Tuesday the members of the cast had to give themselves up to laughter. There were a number of interruptions by the outbursts. Every line sparkles | with the wit contained and those who see it will be convulsed with roars of laughter. May Irwin used it for her | vehicle during the last two years and it was the finest play ever written for the popular come- dtenne. The success attending the metropolitan engagement was not sec- ond to the popularity of the country- wide reception. Large advance sales throughout the entire tour indicated the richly deserved popularity of the attraction. critics agree | ALL GOOD ACTS AT KEENEY'S THEATER Patrons of Keeney's have seen & number of “school acts,” some of which were good, while others did not measure up to the requirements of local theatergoers. None of them, however, give a greater degree of pleasure than The Seven Mischief Makers, who are among the special features of this week’s show. This cempany is made up of exceptionally clever young people and their acting, singing and dancing is far superior to that noticed in the majority of acts of this character. The comedy features of the turn are bright and the bumor is of a spontaneous kind. The scngs include many of the most popu- lar Broadway hits. The ladder specialty of the Three Romans is original and its many striking features make it popular with the Keeney audiences. These people have some ideas of their own and they are cleverly worked out in the acrobatic sketch which they are now presenting. Great strength and unusual skill is displayed throughout the turn and the audience is quick to grasp the new features of the stunts exhibited. The favorite of the week is Billy Ccurt, a clever Scotch comedian, who has been favorably received here in the past. Billy has an entirely new act. His songs are up to the minute and his humorous dialogue is also en- tirely new. The audience warms up tc him every day and he proves the big applause getter at every perform- ance. Kellen and Clark in a comedy musical act receive considerable at- tention every day and Hibbett and Myers in a character sketch also win the approval of the patrons. The pictures are changed every day. To shrink gingham lay the cloth in a large tub of lukewarm rain- water to which a handful of salt has been added, taking care to place the cloth in the original folds, Let it soak until the folds are thoroughly wet through, then remove form the tub, and without wringing pin on to a line in the open air. This will dry perfect- 1y smooth and the color will not run. —_— e S TR --TICKETS-- WORLD FAMOUS ARTISTS SERIES NOW AT Pierce's Music Store ——'Phone 1117-2—— THE POPULAR SHOE STORE | AISHBERG., ) eeemmares. ASK THE GLERK FOR S. & H. GREEN STAMPS Wet Weather SHOES For Young and Old The necessity for proper pro- tection for the feet during the cold and wet season is apparent to every omne. It's the surest safe- guard against cold and grip We are showing winter shoes for men, women and children that are ex- actly what the name implies— shoes for winter; at once warm, dry and comfortable. Come in and let us show them you. THE SHOEMAN, Main St., HARTFORD e ——— of Lord Strathcona (Doris E. Fleischman in New York Tribune.) The insignia, ““Mlle. Eva Gauthier, singer,” tells one little of a most un- usual personality who resolves her- self, in real and retiring life, into the niece of Canada’s former premier, Sir Wilfred Laurier, protegee of power- ful Lord Strathcona, and who has done what no other white woman before her dared do, lived for four years in the seraglio of the Sultan of Java. ‘White women have lived in Turkish harems, but then they were burdened with the duties and privileges of a wife. Mille. Gauthier lived in this Javanese seraglio with full liberty to do just as she chose. No restraints and no fearsome overlord bound her. What she chose to do was to study returned with examples that have never before out of Sultans’ courts. ‘While traveling about on a concert tour store been taken of tonal beauty awaiting her. { Her interest was piqued and she tried to find a means of study. “But it can’'t be done,’ they told her. “They don't understand your notation, and you don’'t understand theirs.” Installed in Sultan’s Harem. “But 1 can surely try,” was the quiet answer. And, indeed, she was soon installed in the sultan’s harem; among his three hundred wives, quite uncon- scious that she was doing in a mat- ter-of-fact way an amazing and unique thing. The Dutch government won- deringly but willingly assisted in mak- ing her plan feasible and she took her place in the potentate’'s palace, the walls of which were four miles in length. ) It reads likq a fairy story. With no trepidation, but agog with pleased anticipation, she found herself greet- ed by a throng of brown Mohame- tan women, with black teeth shining. They were far more amazed than she was. “They just couldn’'t make mse out. They could not understand why I was there. And they had never seen a white woman so close to them be- fore. It was a long time before they trusted me enough to help.” Miss Gauthier, a Canadian French woman, found life in this palace of fifty thousand languid inhabitants a far cry from the uplifting and eman- cipatory atmosphere of Europe and America. There the women of the seraglio dwell in absolute ignorance and blissful idleness. Gossiping in groups, they munch betel nuts or pol- ish their teeth with big pieces of wood and .eat sweets. They are taught to dance and sing. And some of them make batik cloth, an intricate process of dyeing the cotton material in very fine designs, through the aid of wax protection. Otherwise the wives, con- cubines and daughters of the rich do nothing. The lowest class women do all the heavy work. The men do the fine artistic work. They are much better off that way,” she said, when [ asked her if she had tried to reform them and teach them the ways of women of the west. “They could not possibly un- derstand what I meant, anyway. They are much happier as they are than they could possibly be in any other state.” The calm philosophy of the lands of Mahomet has affected Mlle. Gauthier and has curiously intensified the force of her personality. The women were not to be pitied or deplored. They were as their life demanded, and one could almost hear the echo of ‘‘Allah, il Allah!” “One woman, a high cast Javanese, went to Holland. I do not know just how or why. But she saw the tre- mendous difference, and returned im- bued with the desire to alter the con- dition of her sisters. teach them’ quietly out of the window. Placid would not express the alert look of introspection that was so strong upon | her small but arresting features. “She spoke to a few men and women, and then she was poisoned. Probably the men did it. They were afraid.” Seraglio Life Differs from Turkish Harem. Life in a Javanese seraglio it utter- ly different from that of a Turkish harem. There are none of the fear- some restraints. If a man is poor, some of the wives may work, but they may keep their own earnings. No eunuchs guard them, and they may come and g5 as they choose. This, of course, eased the condition of Mlle. Gauthier enormously. The imprison- ment of the Turkish harems would have been almost intolerable. She was there, however, to work. Every day, after she had gained the confidence of the players, the singers and the dancers, she took her lesson. Gaining their confidence was difficult, Photo Plays GRAND THEATER Main Street, Near Myrtle. Re-opened under new management, A Real Picture Show for a Nickel. TODAY'S FEATURE, Alice Hollister and Henry Millande in “HER BITTER LESSON." Big Two Part Drama. All Seats, 5c. J. S. Glackin, Mgr. Eva Gauthier Tells of Her Four Years Experience Harem, Studying Folk—Songs Under Protec- tection of Royal Dutch Government, the music of the country, and she has! of melodies | she found in Java an unknown | She tried to | Miss Gauthier looked | Niece of Sir Wilfred Laurier and Protige Lived in Java Seraglio in even for this gentle and appealing young woman. They had to examine all her clothes at first, hear her speal, feel her to see if she were real, and Le won by little presents. They were shy, and did not want to sing and play their fantastic and beautiful instrn- ments for her. But it was not long before Mille. Gauthier was learning all about the brass instrument looking like a gar- goyle and played in the manner of a xylophone. She was working out the quarter tone scale which their orches- tra used. She was learning and tak- ing down their melodies, which wers writen in that beautiful constructive scheme, the pentatonic scale. These songs have the plaintive qua!- ity which is found in Tristan and Isolde’'s reed song. They have an ap- pealing pathos in the festive ones, and, strangely, they have a great resem- blance to the Russian folksongs. Un- doubtedly they had some influence upon the Russian music. And they are all beautiful. ““One must become accustomed to them,” said Mlle. Gauthier, “just as they must learn our kind of music be- fore they like it. 1 sang to them . bit of colorateur, and they thought the screaming on the high notes was hideous; they thought I was going ‘o burst. “Then I sang to them a melody. But they looked at me bewildered. They could not grasp it in the least. Then I sang Debusy to them, and they went into raptures. Him they understood, for he has tried his best to introduce into his music the quarter tone.” Arranged by Half-Caste Javanese. The songs which Mlle. Gauthier has brought over here, and which she is to sing Friday afternoon at the Waldorf- Astoria ““Moment Musicale,” were ex- quisitely arranged for her by a half- caste whose father was European and whose mother was Javanese. He knew the music of both civilizations inti- mately, and the result is perfection more neatly than it has ever been at- tained in a work of this order. She is to deliver these songs before tho highest musicians of New York of?i- cially on January 8. Kurt Schindler, Frank Damrosch, 2 noted classicist, and many others who have heard this music feel that she h_a’st brought over with her a priceless gift. A Menu for Tomorrow LR G Breakfast. Fruit. Sugar and Cream. Sausages, Creamed Potatoes Vienna Rolls. Coffee. Lunch. Broiled Tripe. Cinnamon Cake. Cereal. Pickles. Tea. Dinner. Vermicelli Soup. Boiled Corned Beef. Riced Potatoes. Cabbage. Olive and Nut Salad. Wafers. Cheese. Prune Shortcake, Coffee. Cinnamon Cake.—Scald and one pint of milk; dissolve one yeast cake in one quarter of a cupful of warm water, add sufficient flour to make a soft dough, roll it up into a little biscuit and drop into a deep howl filed with warm water. When this leaven rises to the top of the water and begins®to swell and spread, add one pint of sifted flour and one scant teaspoonful of salt to the cooled milk. ‘When beaten smooth take the leaven from the water with a skimmer, add it to the batter and beat again until smooth. Set the bowl in a pan of warm water, cover and stand aside in a warm place to rise. Cream together three-quarters of a cupful of butter i and one-half of a cupful of sugar and ! beat in gradually five eggs. When the batter is light, add the egg mixture and beat until thoroughly blended, then cover and let rise again. When very foamy sift in sufficient flour to | make a soft dough; turn out on a floured board and knead for five | minutes; divide into two equal parts, pat each out with the hands or pin until less than an inch thick and put into two shallow, well greased pans. Brush with a little melted butter and when light pour over each cake two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and dredge thickly with a mixture of elght tablespoonfuls of powdered sug- ar and one tablespoonful of powdered cinnamon. Bake in a moderate oven and serve hot or cold. Prune Shortcake.—Rub together one pint of flour, one heaping tea- spoonful of baking powder, one-half of a teaspoonful of salt, one table- spoonful of sugar and one-half of a cupful of butter. Add sufficient sweet milk to make a soft dough and roll out three-quarters of an inch thick. cool butter and prune mix- ture and serve with whipped cream Pick over and wash thoroughly one pound of prunes, cover ithem with cold water and soak for full twenty-four hours. Transfer to a double boiler and conk slowly until perfectly tender. Drain off the juice, add one cupful of sugar and boil to a syrup. Remove the stones from the prunes, cut them fine and stir them into the syrup. Pour over the shortcake while warm and let stand for about ten minutes be- 1Iurr serving | liberally with Bake in a moderate oven, split, spread | ALMA GLUCK IS TO APPEAR IN HARTFORD | Besides being one of the great so- pranos of the world, Alma Gluck is a brainy woman. Had nature not endowed her with her wonderful voice, the prima donna might have made a name for herself in some other profession, or as head of a cor- | poration. When she travels in Europe, nothing escapes her notice, and on the much discussed subject of girl students in Burope, Madame Gluck's advice and opinion are worth ALMA GLUCK. heeding. Above everything, Madame Cluck says that “every girl who goes | to Europe to study, should be accom- panied by a chaperone and the chap- erone should be a woman of middle life or over, and serious minded; there are some chaperones who re- quire watching; Heaven help the girl who is piloted by a foolish woman of the Martha (in Faust) type. Madame Gluck’'s own career has been one pursued by a fortunate star; best of all, Alma Gluck laid the foun- dation for opera in her own country, and thus she was never subjected to the pitfalls which beset so many girls educated abroad. The only studying Alma Gluck ever did in Europe was eight months coaching with Madame Sembrich. Madame Gluck, however, was fortunate in having acquired fa- miliarity with several languages dur- | ing her childhood and girlhood days. | Then, having a glorfous voice, and rare musical talent, a phenomenal memory and natyral grace, it was comparitively easy for her to advance. Indeed it has often been said that Madame Gluck accomplished in three yvears what ordinarily requires seven. Like Melba and Patti, she has a na- turally placed voice. Viewed from any side, Gluck’s career has been a chapter of lucky incidents and for- tunate opportunities; but whenever Dame Fortune knocked at her door, the singer was found ready.” Alma Gluck will appear in Hartford with Zimbalist the great Russian violinist, in the world famous artists series. Tickets and all information can be obtained at Pierce’'s music store, this city. Phone 1117-2, “HER BITTER LESSON" AT GRAND THEATER “Her Bitter Lesson,” a Kalem two part special, released this morning, has been booked by Manager Glackin for the feature of the program to be given at’the Grand motion picture hcuse, Main street, near Myrtie, this evening. Starring in this play, when it was enacted before the camera were Alice Hollister and Harry Millarde, two of the Kalem company's most popular performers. There will also be a Vitagraph special comedy, titled “Peacemaker,” For the leader on Thursday there will be another Vitagraph two-reeler, “Sunshine and Shadows.” This is a big photo-play and it should draw large houses both afternoon and even- ing. Nothing but the products of the leading motion picture houses are shown at this playhouse. The Vita- graph, Biograph, Edison and Kalem companies are among the heaviest | contributors. The management announced today that on Friday, Saturday and Monday, “After the Ball,” a big photo-play, in the production of which a number of lccal people are financially interested, en- will be a feature of the program. Miss Ryan is having a very special | sale of negligees today at her shop, 79 Pratt street, Hartford. A lovely crepe de chine house suit has been reduced from $20 to $10, handsome challis can be bought for $4 that have been several dollars more, there are | matelasses, blankets robes, etc.. ono or two of a kind reduced very {a half dozen cosy albatross jackets for $1.75 that have been § —any number of splendid bargains in these comfortable garments and of | just the materials needed nov {advt | low, | short | 50 | one pound | | Toe make chutney take & Spanish | | Demerara ar. half pound | onions, half pound chopped raisins, three pints of vinegar, half pound salt, half pound mustard seeds, one ounce cayenne pepper, sixteen large | apples. Place the mustard seeds in muelin and put into the vinegar the night before making the chutney. Core the apples, then boil the raisins, apples, onions. mustard seeds, and seasoning In the vinegar to a pulp. | When cold it is ready for use. Place in bottles and cork well. | tempted, | known as Hartford’s Most --Helpful Store-- STYLISH SUITS FOR WOMEN, P or Theatre Goers and Women R_éae ‘ Yes, ind: furs, and they are, i of pleces i cunning of and give i feeling of faction. In sets pleces—for women, Say the of your yours, and bill in 687—-683 MAIN S Hartford “Let’s Pretend” and “Se BY RUTH “There, that's my house,” 1T hear her companion, eagerly leaning forwa brown frame house with a pretty ga “Your house?” blankly, from hi “Yes, you know, the house 1 cho ride every day and we amuse ourselv house. We pass through severa] town It's great fun. We take such an inter The girl's companion listened to { superior, somewhat amused, but not was to change the subject. Without knowing one thing more from that scrap of conversation that and I hoped that 1 was not witnessing that she was the citizen of a country care to enter—the beautiful land of * CAMER( d a young rd and poin rden. m. se. We girl es by each & and 1 hav| est in them. his outburst] at all inters about thoi they were a budding that he nev: ‘let’s preten The Wonderful Land of “Let! If all the happiness in the world the happiness that comes from anticip be compared, 1 wonder which would b Not to know the way into the la known it to have forgotten it as one of the greatest tragedies in life The lack of money can rob you o and vitality or of congenial companio comes froj ation and e the large nd of “let's travels ‘‘fai f some pl nehip of rob you of all the happiness to be found in the you keep the key to the gate of that wonderfu) Journeys That Cost Notl 1 know a girl who is passionately half enough of it to satisfy her cravin gatisfied, for she is a citizen of the la fond of B, yet she nd of “let) long stretches that elapse between her trips she, collecting time tables and steamer sch wonderful trips. She may take them them, but the happiness of planning hers, and nothing can take it away Again 1 know two young folks wh over their catalog of musical records the records they are going to buy wh A child without toys is considere no more pathetic than the grown man to play with the wonderfvl plaything edules and some day' and preten o can find 4 and compfl en their “sl d a patheti or woman & of “et's 1 /{ ANDREW MACK IN | FILMS AT FOX'S i Two of the biggest attractions ever presented single motion pic- ture program in this or any other eity and on any is coming to Fox's today tomor- row in the screen presentation of Andrew Mack, the popular Irish matj- nee idol in ‘““The Ragged KEarl’ a comedy drama of Irish life and the second episode of “The Exploits of Elaine” released under the title of | “Twilight Sleep.” Never hefore in the history of the motion picture buginess has such a startling serial been at and judging from the amount of interest shown in the first chapter which was shown last week | “The Exploits of Elaine” is destined to become even more popular than “The Perils of Pauline” serics its predecessor In presenting Aadrew Mack popular Irish matinee idol, in “The liagged Earl,” the comedy darma of Irish life, Mr. Mack's greatest stage | success, the Alco Film corporation they have met a long wanted ecreen adaptation that will please those from dear Erin, as well as those from this side of the Old Sod Andrew Mack plays the role of Gerald Fitzgerald, rl of Kildare, better “The Ragged Earl'" Wii- liam Conklin as Sir Henry Hardcastle Ormj Hawley as Kathleen Fitzmorria and Edward J. Piel as Lord Wild- brook, an old roue, with the balance | of the cast made up of excellent art- | ists stamping the all screen story is a beautiful one Irish wit and humor dash of heart-interest here and which touches the heart and through the en- tire progress of the plot the audience js treated to many pelasant Besides “The Ragged Barl the feels production a good | The full of adaptation chock with a there around surprises and the second ep Elaine,” wse] offered, fo “"Bweedie's an excrucs traction fi that is a Never ing until ¥ A very | floor, is to Coffee | rich flavor New clasps. Thel match the The in silks will be we ret| The new creeping W bust line i Single uze are tion of you Short the spring. twelve ind The shortes To maki take two H basin and ing milk; | tablespoon pint of col pan, and b let boll fol